Brown Hair

Artist: Nadine Rippelmeyer via Fine Art America

Brown hair is

my favorite,

the way it curls

into you late at night

almost the way

my mother used to

when I was terrified of the moon

and the men who lived

under it.

She held me as I

slipped into dreams,

holding me in the

currents of her hair

holding me holding me holding me

still.